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[4] [12] On 22 October 2023—the feast day of St. John Paul II, the university's patron saint—UCT held a mass, led by Archbishop da Silva, to commemorate UCT's first anniversary and lay the foundation stone for a new four-story building on campus. [13] The university grew to 1,240 students in 2023, and to 1,700 by 2024.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) (Afrikaans: Universiteit van Kaapstad, Xhosa: iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in continuous operation.
John H. Day (1909–1989), marine biologist and invertebrate zoologist, namesake of the John Day Building; Phil Hockey (1956–2013), professor of ornithology, director of the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology; Lancelot Hogben (1895–1975), professor of zoology; Brian Huntley, conservationist; Margaret Levyns (1980–1975 ...
UCT's students surrounding Jameson hall (today Sarah Baartman Hall) on 15 August 1968 1968 , August 14–22, University of Cape Town students, with the support of many staff, held an anti-apartheid sit-in for 9 days, taking over the Bremner Building (administration).
Designs for a proposed project, looking to bring a new 18,000-square-foot building to downtown Beaufort, was met with contention and questions during a Historic District Review Board meeting ...
"The front of my home appeared in the Sex and the City TV series as the exterior of character Carrie Bradshaw's apartment. My fault," Lorber's initial letter to the commission reads. "I felt sorry ...
The Wilfred and Jules Kramer Law Building, named after two major benefactors of the faculty, is located on UCT's Middle Campus in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Since 2000, the bottom two floors of the Kramer Building house the Brand van Zyl Law Library, which became a separate branch of the UCT Libraries in 1962. [9]
The museum’s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.